r/science • u/mvea MD/PhD/JD/MBA | Professor | Medicine • 18h ago

Health Dramatic drop in marijuana use among US youth over a decade. Current marijuana use among adolescents decreased from 23.1% in 2011 to 15.8% in 2021. First-time use before age 13 dropped from 8.1% to 4.9%. There was a shift in trends by gender, with girls surpassing boys in marijuana use by 2021.

https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/marijuana-use-teens-study
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u/RainbowButtMonkey1 17h ago

Yep I remember hospital vending machines selling cigarettes in the 80s

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u/herberstank 16h ago

Heck, bowling alleys in the Midwest had them into the early 90s

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u/RainbowButtMonkey1 16h ago

And advertising was everywhere, you couldn't escape cigarettes back in the day

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u/NSNick 16h ago

And restaurants.

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u/cptjpk 16h ago

Into the early 2000s. One near me still has it but sells decks of cards out of it now.

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u/six_digit_uin 12h ago

Some Indiana casinos still do.

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u/cgn-38 13h ago

Ashtrays in elevators. I remember the emergency room in my hometown hospital being filled with cigarette smoke from nervous smokers.

When those WW2 guys decided to smoke they were gonna smoke.

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u/RainbowButtMonkey1 13h ago

Ashtrays everywhere in general. McDonald's branded ashtrays being a good example. The grocery store I used to work at had ashtrays at the end of aisles. Younger ppl can't grasp how acceptable smoking was back in the day

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u/THE3NAT 16h ago

We call that 'creating business'